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Franco Solinas
Writer 1927 - 1982

Franco Solinas

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

16 titles
Hanna K.

Hanna K.

Costa-Gavras 1983 1h 40m 7.0

A female American Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by an Israeli court. It's a tough case because of strong political background. Meanwhile she finds out she's pregnant and thinks about abortion.

Mr. Klein

Mr. Klein

Joseph Losey 1976 2h 3m 8.3

In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?

État de siège

État de siège

Costa-Gavras 1972 2h 2m 7.5

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

The Assassination of Trotsky

The Assassination of Trotsky

Joseph Losey 1972 1h 43m 6.0

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Tepepa

Tepepa

Giulio Petroni 1969 2h 16m 10.0

The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.

Queimada!

Queimada!

Gillo Pontecorvo 1969 2h 9m

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized to much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

Il mercenario

Il mercenario

Sergio Corbucci 1968 1h 41m 7.0

A greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.

La resa dei conti

La resa dei conti

Sergio Sollima 1966 1h 51m 7.0

A veteran bounty hunter and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a crafty, knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of the rape-and-murder of a young girl.

La battaglia di Algeri

La battaglia di Algeri

Gillo Pontecorvo 1966 2h 2m 7.8

The French Colonel...who was forced even to torture! One of the many women...who stopped at nothing to win! The Algerian Street Boy...who became a rebel hero!

El chuncho, quien sabe?

El chuncho, quien sabe?

Damiano Damiani 1966 1h 58m 8.4

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government.

Le soldatesse

Le soldatesse

Valerio Zurlini 1965 1h 54m 7.0

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Una vita violenta

Una vita violenta

Brunello Rondi, Paolo Heusch 1962 1h 46m 7.0

Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.

Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano

Francesco Rosi 1962 1h 59m 7.8

In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to do their fighting, and the days leading up to and following Giuliano's death.

Vanina Vanini

Vanina Vanini

Roberto Rossellini 1961 2h 7m

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Carboneria.

Madame Sans Gêne

Madame Sans Gêne

Christian-Jaque 1961 1h 38m 3.0

Catherine, a laundress, joins lover Lefevre in war. Their heroics help Napoleon win. As a reward, they're granted nobility. Catherine's lack of courtly etiquette shocks high society, but she remains authentic despite her new rank.

Kapò

Kapò

Gillo Pontecorvo 1960 1h 57m 7.3

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

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